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Very nice!
I see you went with the quick expansion route, not the trading one. That must have taken some luck (or some restarting :P), how much of that is cored?
I tried that once and also was lucky that the Ottomans collapsed (which they often do), but Austria and GH ended my atempts in the mid 1500s because I lagged in tech and had no money to bribe the Austrians.

Cores are Ragusa (obviously), Zeta, Bosnia (Boundary Dispute with Hungary IIRC), Serbia, Kosovo (Boundary Dispute with Serbia), Albania (Boundary Dispute with Venice, then got it off Albania when they declared independence), Macedonia and the province above it (both boundary disputes with the Ottomans) and Larissa (conquest mission).

I also have untaken cores from Claims on our Rivals on Corfu, Edirne, Croatia and Bulgaria.

"You have just constructed a straw man so large you could burn it in the desert and hold an annoying festival around it."

I like how neat the borders are in France. What nation is the blue near the Pyrenees? I don't recognize it by the color.

I inherited a pretty much fully formed France out of pure luck and since I prefer mid-sized vassals to blobby ones I released a couple of French minors and split the rest of the French territory amongst them. The prestige loss for all the gifted provinces (during a regency council...) was rather harsh but I'm a sucker for nice borders. The blue nation near the Pyrenees is Guyenne.

I just recently colonized the final province in South America, which could have happened a lot earlier if I hadn't dropped QftNW too soon. The next step will be to annex Savoy for Dauphine and Milan for Parma and then... I don't really know. Maybe I'll carve additional vassals out of the HRE and trim Bohemia some more... or maybe I'll just start a new game.

They survived and did rather well for themselves for a while, partly because I conquered Castille, fought a couple of big wars with Austria and vassalized Venice I guess. Byzantiums problems only really started when England apparently decided that Anatolia is an integral part of the Commonwealth.

Hello! First poster here; lurked without a name for quite some time. After playing for some time, I downloaded Steppe Wolf and got an idea to start playing as a country from the very beginning of its existence. The country I picked was the Ottoman "Empire", all the way back in 1301. I have, however, grown somewhat bored of it and plan on starting a 1570 Anhalt game, so, here you are, the Ottoman Empire one century later:

Welcome to the forums! I always liked the Steppe Wolf mods. AirotciV was a lot of fun, though a bit buggy. Also, I love reading about Ottomans struggling against Byzantines, instead of the other way around, haha.

Hello! First poster here; lurked without a name for quite some time. After playing for some time, I downloaded Steppe Wolf and got an idea to start playing as a country from the very beginning of its existence. The country I picked was the Ottoman "Empire", all the way back in 1301. I have, however, grown somewhat bored of it and plan on starting a 1570 Anhalt game, so, here you are, the Ottoman Empire one century later:

Q_Q hi fellow Steppe Wolf player

Very nice Ottomans...

You're playing as Anhalt in Steppe Wolf? What a tiny country Q_Q have fun with that... that should be a challenge.

New on these place of the forums.After vicII and the cancellation of magna mundi I decided to pick up EU3 Chronicles,its nice but waaaay different than VICII AHD.Just started a 1453 campgain as Morea with the goal to recreate the empire or at least create the 'Megali Idea'

New on these place of the forums.After vicII and the cancellation of magna mundi I decided to pick up EU3 Chronicles,its nice but waaaay different than VICII AHD.Just started a 1453 campgain as Morea with the goal to recreate the empire or at least create the 'Megali Idea'

Next post will be my glorious empire risen from the asses

I bolded what I presume to be a typo; however, I will not make any assumptions. The Greeks sometimes need to pick their head out of their butts.

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From the start I wanted to unite Italy because I had never seen the AI do it, probably because the computer isn't great at dealing with the complexities of the HRE mechanics. Urbino came close in one of my games, but they got crushed by Austria after making the terrible decision to annex Pisa.

Unfortunately, forming Italy and fighting Bohemia took most of my time, so I didn't get around to cleaning up the American colonies or conquering the rest of Byzantium. It was necessary to declare war on Bohemia and prevent them from enacting the last few imperial reforms, but the successive wars dragged on for decades and resulted in dangerously high war exhaustion on both sides, until the combined effects of the wars caused all of the electors to switch the votes to someone else. I don't know how Bohemia survived after that.